Manufacture of cardboard boxes.



D. HAWORTH,

- PATENTED APR. 14, 1908.

MANUFACTURE OF CARDBOARD BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED 00127. 1900.

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RICHARD DIGGLE HAWORTH, OF WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND.

MANUFACTURE OF CARDBOARD BOXES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 27, 1906.

Patented April 14, 1908.

Serial No. 340,859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD DIGGLE HA- WORTH, a subject of His Majestythe King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Wellington, in theProvincial District of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in and Relating to theManufacture of Cardboard Boxes, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to cardboard boxes especially those known ascollapsible.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved fastening for theends and sides.

According hereto the card forming the end of a box is bent at rightangles at each end, each part terminating in a hook shaped portion whichis passed through a slot cut in the end of the side of the box.

The hook is engaged by a turn button which is pivoted by an eyelet,rivet or the like upon the inside of the box.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing wherein Figure 1is a plan view of a box collapsed. Fig. 2 is a part sectional sideelevation showing the end and side connected together. Fig. 3 is asectional elevation on 3 3, Fig. 2.

Referring first to Fig. 1.The card from which the box is made has thepart 1 which forms the bottom, the parts 2 and 3 forming the sides andthe parts 4 and 5 forming the ends. The card is scored as shown indotted lines to facilitate folding and all the parts are bent upwardlyat right angles to the bottom 1. Each of the parts 4 and 5 has at eachend a portion 6 which is cut out, by a die or the like to form a hook 7.Each of the ends of the side pieces 2 and 3 has a slot 8 through whichis passed one of the opposing hooks of the end portion as clearly shownin Fig. 2.

Buttons 9, one for each of the hooks, are

pivotally secured each by an eyelet 10 to one of the side pieces in suchmanner that it can be turned down into the position shown in dottedlines Fig 2 to allow its hook to be passed over it and then turned roundupon its pivot as shown in full lines in the same figure to secure thehook. Y

A washer 11 of material of approximately the thickness of the materialfrom which the hook is formed, is threaded upon an eyelet between thebutton and the side of the box to facilitate the turning of the button.

What I do claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates is A collapsible box comprising a bottom, foldable sides and endsintegral with the bottom, slotted hooks integral with the extremities ofthe ends and adapted to pass through slots in the sides, and buttonspivoted to the sides and adapted to-pass through the slots of, andretain the hooks, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two witnesses.

RICHARD DIGGLE HAWORTH. l/Vitnesses:

THEo. I. I. WATSON, JAMES A. HARDIE.

